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050 0 4 _aPS377
_b.M33 2011
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100 1 _aMachor, James L.
245 1 0 _aReading Fiction in Antebellum America
_bInformed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865 /
_cJames L. Machor.
264 1 _bJohns Hopkins University Press,
264 3 _bProject MUSE,
300 _a1 online resource (xiv, 403 p.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 321-391) and index.
505 0 _apt. 1. Reading reading historically. Historical hermeneutics, reception theory, and the social conditions of reading in antebellum America ; Interpretive strategies and informed reading in the antebellum public sphere -- pt. 2. Contextual receptions, reading experiences, and patterns of response: four case studies. "These days of double dealing": informed response, reader appropriation, and the tales of Poe ; Multiple audiences and Melville's fiction: receptions, recoveries, and regressions ; Response as (re)construction: the reception of Catharine Sedgwick's novels ; Mercurial readings: the making and unmaking of Caroline Chesebro'-- Conclusion: American literary history and the historical study of interpretive practices.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aBooks and reading
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aAuthors and readers
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aReader-response criticism
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/42/
945 _aProject MUSE - 2011 Literature
945 _aProject MUSE - 2011 Complete
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